The Readers United

In January, we rolled out a beta version of the book club on our book blog, inviting readers to join us in a month-long attempt to decipher—or, really, simply to finish—Roberto Bolaño’s nine-hundred-page novel “2666.” We’re grateful to everyone who braved the journey, and whose insights helped light our way. When the month was over, one of our commenters, lauerjeremy, offered a thought that seems apropos of our new endeavor:

National Reading “2666” Month has been exhilarating. I’m reminded of Jenna Krajeski’s 10 November 2008 post “Guest List”: how wonderful to live where can be felt that “deliciously rare possibility that you and all the city’s readers and writers, employees of newspapers and magazines, book editors and cover designers, librarians and literature students, the subway rider clutching Vol. 2, the intern in the elevator, the redhead from your poetry workshop, all of them are potential partners in a hearty literary conversation.”

Let the conversation begin.

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